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Men’s Volleyball Kicks off UVC Cross-Over Weekend

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Release Date:

February 4, 2011

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Buffalo, NY – The newly formed United Volleyball Conference (UVC) will hold its first cross-over weekend February 5 and February 6 in the Western New York area and the Hilbert College men’s volleyball team would like your support. Medaille College and D’Youville College will serve as co-hosts for the two-day tournament due to their campuses close proximity to each other. All ten members of the UVC will be in town providing the entire conference an opportunity to compete against each other in a single head-to-head competition. Hilbert is scheduled to face SUNYIT on Saturday at D’Youville College at 5pm. Then on Sunday, they will face off at 12pm against Stevens University at Medaille College.

Medaille will be streaming ‘live’ all games played at the Sullivan Center both days. If you are unable to be there in person on Sunday, you can follow the 12 noon game live via the web. Click this link to listen to live audio on game from your computer.

The second cross-over weekend is on the books for March 5th and 6th at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY). Hilbert will face Vassar (3/5/11), Bard and SUNY New Paltz (3/6/11) to complete the ‘cross-over’ matches. The Hawks face D’Youville, Medaille, Nazareth and Elmira in home and away events during the season but only one of the two games will serve as a UVC conference game.

Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college’s first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.